Tuesday May 24, 2011

Enteprise CLEC
PAETEC Holdings is working up plans to build new data centers,
as well as introduce an expanded range of services, the Fairport,
NY-based company announced. Management foresees ongoing high demand
for integrated telecoms/computing services among businesses,
particularly among mid-market sized businesses.

"With the advent of high-speed networks and continued migration of
network intelligence into the cloud, the need for these
network-based services has increased dramatically and we see that
trend continuing into the future," said Arunas Chesonis, chairman
and CEO of PAETEC. "Given our historical expertise, nationwide
network, deep customer base, and skilled employee base, I believe
PAETEC, unlike any other provider, will be extremely well
positioned to serve mid-sized and enterprise organizations."

PAETEC has been one of the most aggressive CLECs
to seize the cloud and managed service opportunity. Through both
acquisition and asset investment, PAETEC is trying to establish
itself as an industry leader in the fast evolving space.

Its expanded portfolio of cloud services
comprises Virtual Server, Dedicated Server, Managed Storage and
Hosted Exchange service suites. "Looking at the products and
services that were already available in the market, we saw very
strong solutions for small business and start-ups and increasing
competition for the large enterprise but very little that was
appropriate for the needs of our mid-market customers," said John
Chapman, chief marketing officer. "Unlike other cloud
infrastructure providers focused on leveraging commodity hardware,
we believe the cloud data center must offer the same performance
and reliability of which our customers have become
accustomed."

PAETEC offers integrated IP, voice, data, security, storage and
Internet services to businesses in 86 of the 100 largest US metro
areas. With data centers in seven US cities, the company plans to
build new ones this year in McClean, Va., Tampa, Columbus, Detroit
and Charlotte. Data centers in Dallas, Chicago, northern
California, Rochester, NY, Pittsburgh, Denver, Atlanta and
somewhere in the Pacific Northwest are slated for 2012.